CRIMINALS SENTENCED

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2530, 3 August 1915, Page 9

CRIMINALS SENTENCED

CHRISTCHUROH SUPREME COURT. (fly TeleiranTi.—Press Association.) . Ghristchurch, August 2. At the Supreme Court criminal sittings, Ernest Dillimore was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for theft from a house of articles valued.at £80. James Lambert was sentenced to sis months for assault. Albert Higgins, on a charge of indecent assault, was admitted to probation for twelve months and ordered to pay £5 expenses within three months. Alfred Seymour, on a charge of indecent assa-ult, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment. Charles Victor Hack, convicted of cattle stealing, was ordered to come up for sentence wlien called upou; Mary Elizabeth Francis, for opening a postal packet contrary to her duty, was ordered to como up for sentence when called upon, provided sho paid £5 costs of the prosecution; Winifred Carrick, for abandoning her child ■under two years of age, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment; Edward James Welsh, for indecent assault, was sentenced to ten years' reformative treatment. ! AUOKLAYD CRIMINAL SITTINGS. (By Telegraph .—Press Association.) Auckland, August 2. In tho Supreme Court, Clifton James M'Cormaok, charged with arson at To Aroha, and described as a degenerate, was ordered two years' reformative treatment. Erura Karaka and Mita Horn, two Maoris from r.he Gisborne district, charged with breaking and entering and theft, were ordered twelve months' reformative treatment, and_ at the expiry of the sentence to be imprisoned for twelve months for the theft of a horse. ' r